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Not to be confused with ''The Infinite Ocean'', a fairly creepy point-and-click adventure game about the first [[Artificial Intelligence]].

* [[All in A Row]]: How your diving partners follow you, although in the original game at least, you could make fish do this to you as well by just petting them a bunch of times after you've already learned all the facts about their species.

* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: One of the songs in the original.

* [[Atlantis]]: Mo'ia Atoll. Maybe. Okeanides in ''Blue World''.

* [[The Beast Master]]: {{spoiler|The Okenaides and the Mo'ia Atol people could control cetaceans through songs, and formed the first world-wide civilization with their help.}}

* [[Big Creepy Crawlies]]: {{spoiler|The Grave Creeper is about twice the size of its already enormous friends.}}

* [[But Thou Must]]: In ''Blue World'', after you and Oceana find {{spoiler|the plesiosaur}}, Oceane decides she's not going to publicize this discovery, and asks if you agree. You can say "I do" or "No I don't," but if you pick no, Oceana will just say "Really?" and ask you the question again. And again. And again.

* [[Enemy Scan]]: Using your ''hand'' to fill the Marine Encyclopedia.

* [[Epic Song]] (with shades of [[Ominous Music Box Tune]]): The Song of Dragons is an in-universe example: humanity obsesses over its meaning and origin, and it's become known as a harbinger of doom wherever it is heard. {{spoiler|It's actually a musical key known by all whales that guides people to and unlocks the Okeanides ruins... and subsequently drives the whales within mad to seal it up again.}}

* [[Fake Longevity]]: In the first game, you had to find each creature on three separate days in order to learn all three sets of facts about them to complete the Marine Encyclopedia. ''Blue World'' shortens this down to everything being learn-able in a single encounter, but also introduces money that has to be earned through work to spend on new gear. {{spoiler|Not to mention saving up ''a million'' pelagos in order to open Okeanides back up to casual exploration.}}

* [[Fan Service]]: Um... kind of? If you purchase swimwear in ''Blue World'' that doesn't consist of a wetsuit and have your character wear it, you can have him/her partake in a [[Shower Scene]] using the facilities behind the Nineball Island cabin.

** Or, if you don't need your character to be washing to appreciate it, you can take your character on a dive in the swimwear. Then you can go ashore, and look all around. Or hey, if the front is all you need, looking at the character wearing it in the equipment menu is sufficient.

* [[Fast Forward Mechanic]]: A location is provided to allow the player to move rapidly to another time of day and forwards in time with regards to things like missions.

** [[The Hero]]: You

** [[The Lancer]]: Oceana

** [[The Smart Guy|The Smart Chick]]: Hayako

** [[The Big Guy]]: GG

* [[Foreshadowing]]: The {{spoiler|Ancient Mother}} is foreshadowed by such things as the skeleton at the bottom of the Abyss, and Kat's comments when you assemble the Whale God Mirror. Mo'ia Atoll is also mentioned in passing during the Great Aqua Cave's backstory.

* [[Friendly Playful Dolphin|Friendly Playful Dolphins]]: The games naturally feature dolphins and larger cetaceans from various locations. You can befriend certain dolphins. When players get to nine ball island in ''Endless Ocean Blue World'' they can teach tricks to a dolphin.

* [[Gaias Vengeance|Gaia's Vengeance]]: Thanatos' trivia wonders if his emergence is Mother Nature's revenge for humanity's [[Disproportionate Retribution]] against shark attacks.

* [[Science Is Bad]]: Averted ''hard''. The mysterious and perhaps Godlike {{spoiler|Ancient Mother}} is {{spoiler|captured and taken to the Manoa Lai aquarium}} without anyone raising a ruckus. You can {{spoiler|release it}} later, though.

** {{spoiler|Good luck finding each species (over 240) three times to fill in all of the encyclopedia to unlock this option, though! Serious [[Guide Dang It]] moments there.}}

** Also Oceana insisting you keep {{spoiler|the plesiosaur}} a secret.

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: The {{spoiler|Magu Tapah}}, which you {{spoiler|have effectively released by befriending the orca that was guarding said can, and bringing it away from Ship's Rest.}} [[Inferred Holocaust|Oops.]]

* [[Small Taxonomy Pools]]: Averted, in as much as time, budget, and disc-space would allow.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Each theme was specifically crafted for one area, and can sound rather silly if you choose to play it somewhere else - for example, filling the cheery little Coral Forest with [[Ominous Latin Chanting]].

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To the ''Everblue'' games.

* [[The Stinger]]: Inverted - instead of extra content during the credits, you can find the credits as an [[Easter Egg]].

* [[Stock Sound Effects]]: For the dolphins and whales. There's a pool of sounds each for small dolphins, big dolphins, whales, and belugas.

* [[The Stoic]]: The player character's defining trait, thus explaining his/her [[Heroic Mime]] tendencies.

** In the sequel, however, the air gauge is more realistically timed, but can still be lengthened by improving Diving Skill and buying regulators.

* [[Super Persistent Predator]]: Averted in the second game; sharks, caimans, and piranha will attack you, but will not chase you for too long before they give up.

** {{spoiler|Thanatos}} plays it straight, but it's implied that he might be more than what he appears.

* [[Talking Animal]]: ''Blue World'' has two possible examples, both during side-quests.

** The first is the blue bird, though whether this is just telepathy or not is never explained.

* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]

* [[Where It All Began]]: The Great Aqua Cave is one of the first places you go in the first game, but you return to it later on and enter the {{spoiler|White Room}}.

** Some fans have gone a little bit overboard with this, no pun intended. There are some (very complicated) theories involving the game's internal mythology and specific bits of dialog/mail that suggest that she might either {{spoiler|turn into a mermaid or cause some sort of catastrophe}} if she ever enters the sea. [[Wild Mass Guessing]] at its finest.

** There's also the (fairly realistic) explanation in-game: {{spoiler|her father Patrick died while on a dive when he got tangled up in kelp and eventually drowned. Seems fairly reasonable that she might have an aversion to diving after that.}}